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No mention of MySQL anywhere in that declaration, which is interesting given the EU's regulatory body concerns.
MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.
No mention of MySQL anywhere in that declaration, which is interesting given the EU's regulatory body concerns.
It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact. MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.
" ...tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware." Does this mean support for Oracle software on Linux will slowly degrade? Oracle would likely prefer to sell you the entire suite of hardware, OS and software vs. just selling software.
When I was interviewing with the DB2 team for IBM, they mentioned that the high-end IBM database servers implement special instructions (CPU-level) for accelerating certain DB operations. I don't know any more details than that, but I'd guess that's where Oracle is going to go with SPARC.
... dramatically improve hardware performance by tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware Eh? The hardware and its performance stands alone. Adding software cannot improve the hardware. Only the software performance may be increased by better hardware utilization.
Please Oracle make ZFS GPL as Btrfs is. :)
I really want to know what Orcale's real plan is. Before the acquisition they have to have figured out some way to reconcile Oracle Linux and Solaris, I just wish I knew what it was. No matter how you slice it, they are competing products in a very similar space. I suppose they could continue to develop both separately and take advantage of having two brands.
Oracle isn't really developing Oracle Linux since that's just RHEL. All they do is provide support.
No mention of MySQL anywhere in that declaration, which is interesting given the EU's regulatory body concerns.
It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact. MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.
No mention of MySQL anywhere in that declaration, which is interesting given the EU's regulatory body concerns.